History is filled with talented directors, many of whom are active today (directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and many others). Unfortunately, as fantastic as these ...

Japanese filmmakers of all time won the only Oscar directing award of his career for a late-career masterpiece.

Fact:Akira Kurosawa is one of the greatest directors of all time. Many would argue he's the best, considering just how much and how well he transitioned between genres, directing historical epics, ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Akira Kurosawa’s legacy is getting the 4K treatment with a massive U.S. festival. Film Forum in New York City will be hosting a special retrospective to honor the late auteur, including the U.S.

Dwarfing all other DVD releases this week is a staggering, 25-film, $399 box set from Criterion of the films of Akira Kurosawa. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Japanese master’s birth, “AK ...

Shinobu Hashimoto, a screenwriter whose first film, “Rashomon,” became a touchstone of world cinema, and who went on to collaborate with its director, Akira Kurosawa, on celebrated pictures like ...

TOKYO — Toho filed suit in Tokyo District Court on Monday against a DVD sales company for copyright violations on eight Akira Kurosawa pics, including the classics “Ikiru” and “Sugata Sanshiro.” Toho, ...

Feature: How to adapt a film like Akira Kurosawa? Akira Kurosawa is one of the world’s most revered directors, his films often cited as inspiration amongst other auteurs. Sometimes that inspiration ...

TOKYO — Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he ...